When the weekly disagrees with the fifteen-minute candle
A sharp fifteen-minute break feels urgent. The weekly range often has not moved. Here is how we teach traders to keep both facts on the desk without letting the lower sheet win by volume.
Journal
Notes from the stack
Short pieces we hand to workshop groups — clashes between weekly and lower sheets, markup habits, and the Sunday work that belongs before the London open.
Marking swing structure without crowding the sheet
Too many lines is a form of not deciding. A daily swing sheet for a multi-day hold needs a small set of marks you can still read at the open.
A Sunday-to-Monday pass before the London open
The open will offer you a one-hour story. The work that belongs to swing planning happens when the room is still quiet: weekly, then daily, then a sentence you are not allowed to edit after 08:00.
When the daily is valid and the four-hour still says wait
A clean daily swing is not a receipt. The four-hour is where we time the window — and where impatient traders spend the stop that the daily did not require.
Three mistakes when stacking timeframes for a three-to-ten-day hold
Weekly, daily, and four-hour can be stacked in an order that looks disciplined and still produces a day-trade in disguise. These are the faults we mark most often on incoming journals.